Search by Keywords | Browse by Titles | Authors | SubjectsFrom Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection,
1822-1909 presents 396 pamphlets from the Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, published from 1822 through 1909, by
African-American authors and others who wrote about slavery, African
colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics. The
materials range from personal accounts and public orations to
organizational reports and legislative speeches. Among the authors
represented are Frederick Douglass, Kelly Miller, Charles Sumner, Mary
Church Terrell, and Booker T. Washington. From Slavery to
Freedom was made possible by a major gift from the Citigroup
Foundation and complements African American Perspectives:
Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907.
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